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Our latest fortnightly round-up of the latest London restaurant reviews from the top UK critics as they are added to our reviewssection. This week we sees a host of new entries, including The Delaunay, Mishkin's, Soif, and Granger & Co.

Choice quote: "It is the consummate style, attention to detail, patience, comprehension of what people want and how they want it built up by Chris Corbin and Jeremy King over the 30 years since they bought Le Caprice in 1981 that has crystallised in this terrific new restaurant..."Read review

Kelly Hussey - View London

Choice quote: "Delaunay gets the balance right. Sophisticated without being pompous, it’s the ‘affordable’ option for doing quality in the capital."Read review

Choice quote: "Minor gripes aside, the cooking was top drawer. On a week night the place was busy with well-heeled locals and out-to-impress couples. You might have to pay a Maharajah's ransom for a meal here, but it rivals feasts served by upmarket West End competitors."Read review

Choice quote: "And what of the food? Ah, yes. Mostly it is excellent. Compared with some other tapas joints in central London – Polpo, Polpetto, Spuntino, Opera Tavern – it's cheap here, but still high in quality."Read review

Choice quote: "It's all so well planned I want to give it a diploma; but I still have a nagging criticism, which is that it's trying to be everything to everyone, not only with its meal-time flexibility but with the actual cooking, and this prevents those moments of boldness, of culinary risk or simple street-food explosiveness that make you fall in love with a restaurant." Read review

Choice quote: "Once the kitchen kinks are ironed out and the service is as sunny in the evening as it is in the day, we might have reason to be as smiley about this all-day, no-bookings brasserie as Mr Granger is himself." Read review

Kelly Hussey - View London

Choice quote: "As people tire of pomp and turn their backs on the crass nature of flash-the-cash eateries, places like Granger and Co fill the void with a focus on simple quality. A refreshing addition to the capital." Read review

Choice quote: "“Great food, and the ideal restaurant for a bedraggled civil servant with artistic pretensions in 1948,” was my friend’s closing judgment, “but I wouldn’t come back.” There he spoke for this ageing buffer as well."Read review

Marina O'Loughlin - Metro

Choice quote: "Ducksoup is so perfectly a restaurant of today, from its easily Google-able name to its basic Tumblr website, that it’s verging on pastiche. It looks like a semi-permanent pop-up."Read review

Choice quote: "I'm sorry, Jamie. But why not put pizza on at Jamie's Italian, then start a chain of British-themed restaurants with ploughman's and doorstop sandwiches and pies? *Helpful face*"Read review

Steve Dinneen - City AM

Choice quote: "The (flatbread) base was crafted to perfection, crispy on the surface and doughy underneath, with a hint of charcoal where the bread has risen in the wood-fired oven. It’s simple, tasty food – exactly the kind of thing Oliver is famous for creating."Read review

Choice quote: "... the food, delivered, as asked, course by course rather than dish by dish, was faultless. Better than faultless, actually, like watching a slide show of all your childhood holidays rolled into one and discovering they were even more sun-kissed and golden than you’d remembered."Read review

Choice quote: "We left Soif feeling stuffed, but impressed by the gutsy intensity of the chef's cooking."Read review

David Sexton - Evening Standard

Choice quote: "...one way and another, for locals Soif is obviously a great addition to the neighbourhood, bound to be packed, at these fair prices. That we failed to enjoy our evening as much as we had expected perhaps should be put down partly to the location and atmosphere, as well as the heavy cooking."Read review

Andrew Neather - Evening Standard: "To a Western palate more accustomed to Cantonese or Szechuan food, this is a different, heartier set of flavours. Designed to ward off the long, cold Beijing winter, it felt right for a late autumn day."Read review